Venture into the Farmyard Nursery out of hours and you might think you've stumbled into a curiosity shop. The nursery, housed in an open-plan barn conversion on a Sussex farm, is filled with surprising resources.
There are stuffed owls in boxes, a Tibetan prayer flag on the wall, a pretend shoe shop with a foot-measuring gauge and a "song bag" filled with all sorts of surprising objects designed to inspire sing-alongs. Outside, the curiosities continue with a lobster pot, an animal trough turned into a plant pot, and a cattle hay feeder that has been transformed into a climbing frame.
"We try to have unusual things," says Sara Andrew, the nursery's owner and early years teacher. "Last term, we cut down a huge branch, brought it into the nursery and tied it up with wire so that it went right over the children.
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